Chapter 107

Chapter 107

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"Pepe is safe? What a relief..."

Leopold checked on that bird every day, because he loved the smile she gave him, her eyes tinged with worry.

Controlling an animal ought to have felt distasteful, yet he saw no sign of her pushing him away.

"If I disappeared, would you worry about me like that too?"

"Well, do you have a plan to vanish any time soon?"

"No."

Leopold swallowed a scalding breath. Beneath a gaze seething with black desire, the pale woman lay sleeping.

'I have no intention of leaving you, not for a moment, but...'

He lowered his eyes and looked at the back of his hand. A few black feathers had sprouted there.

The price of using the "power" had come swiftly. The thorns blooming up from inside his body grew in number with each passing day.

Even when he gritted his teeth…